Kristijan Fris

Kristijan Fris (born April 21, 1984 in Senta ) is a Serbian wrestler .

Career

Kristijan Fris comes from Senta in Vojvodina and belongs to the Hungarian minority there. He started wrestling in 1996 as a teenager. He became a member of the wrestling club Ravni Klub Proleter Zrenjanin , one of the leading clubs in Serbia . So far, he has been trained by the coaches Szabo, Pak and Sandor Nando . Traditionally, the best wrestlers in the country came from Vojvodina back in the days of Yugoslavia.

At a height of 1.68 meters, he wrestles in the bantam weight, the lightest weight class (up to 55 kg body weight (KG)) and only in the Greco-Roman style. Because of the political events in the former Yugoslavia , he started for Yugoslavia until 2002, for Serbia and Montenegro from 2003 to 2007 and since 2007 for Serbia .

He began his career on the international wrestling mat in 2000 when he took part in the European Junior Championships (Cadets) in Bratislava . He came in 13th place in the class up to 46 kg body weight. At the European Junior Championships in Subotica in 2002 , he won a medal in the weight class up to 50 kg for the first time at an international championship, the bronze. After a respectable 7th place at the Junior World Championships 2003 in Istanbul , where he won three fights before he was eliminated by the Iranian Hamid Bavafa, he achieved the greatest success of his junior time at the 2004 Junior European Championships in Murska Sobota became junior European bantamweight champion ahead of Gegam Sadajan from Russia and Daniel Krymow from Ukraine .

In 2004 Kristijan Fris tried to qualify for participation in the Olympic Games in Athens in Novi Sad . However, as a relatively inexperienced young wrestler, he failed in this project because he only came in 19th place. At the Senior European Championships in 2005 in Varna he reached a good 5th place in bantamweight and was the same year winner of the Mediterranean Games in Almería in bantamweight before the Egyptian Mohamed Moustafa Abu Elela.

After weaker results at the 2005 World Cup and the 2006 international championships, Kristijan Fris's big breakthrough came in 2007. He first won the European Championship bronze medal at the European Championships this year in Sofia with a victory in the decisive fight against the Finn Ville Kaeki and secured the same medal at the World Championships in Baku in autumn 2007 . He won there u. a. also over the young German Florian Crusius and won after a defeat in the semifinals against the Iranian Hamid Soryan Reihanpour in the fight for the World Cup bronze medal over the US-American Lindsey Durlacher . With this 3rd place he had already qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing .

In Beijing he came in bantamweight with victories over Juri Kowal from Ukraine, a defeat against Nasir Mankijew from Russia, the later Olympic champion , a victory over Ildar Hafizow, Uzbekistan and another defeat against the 2007 world champion Hamid Sorjan Reihanpour on a good 7 . Space.

In 2009 Kristijan Fris also took part in the European Championships in Vilnius and lost his first bantamweight fight there against the Russian Bekchan Mankijew . Since this did not reach the final, he had to retire and only came in 19th place. He didn't fare any better at the 2009 World Cup in Herning / Denmark either, because he lost his first fight against Virgil Munteanu from Romania and only finished 27th.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
2000	13.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Bratislava	Class up to 46 kg body weight	Winner: Dragos Ciampanu, Romania ahead of Alexei Lozovoi, Ukraine
2001	10.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Izmir	Class up to 46 kg body weight	Winner: Stepan Dubow, Israel ahead of Alexei Chudurjan, Russia
2002	3.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Subotica	Class up to 50 kg body weight	behind Roman Amojan , Armenia a . Malchaz Solomonidze, Georgia
2003	19th	EM in Belgrade	Bantam	after defeats against Marian Sandu , Romania a . Stoitchko Ivanov, Bulgaria
2003	7th	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Istanbul	Bantam	with victories over Daniel Krymow, Russia, Svailunas Adomaitis, Lithuania a . Arif Schiralijew, Azerbaijan a . a loss to Hamid Bavafa, Iran
2004	8th.	"Nikola Petrov" Memorial in Sofia	Bantam	Winner: Dennis Hall , USA ahead of Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan , Germany and Nurkbayat Tengisbajew , Kazakhstan
2004	19th	Olympic qualification tournament in Novi Sad	Bantam	Winner: Brandon Paulson , USA ahead of Erkan Yildiz, Turkey a. István Majoros , Hungary
2004	1.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Murska Sobota	Bantam	before Gegam Sadajan, Russia a. Daniel Krymow, Ukraine
2005	3.	"LJI Gedza" tournament in Belgrade	feather	behind Eusebiu Diaconu , Romania u. Tamas Löricz , Hungary, together with Hugo des Passos da Silva, Portugal
2005	2.	"Nikola Petrov" Memorial in Sofia	Bantam	behind Bayram Özdemir, Turkey, in front of Iwo Angelow , Bulgaria a. Abrahim Karim, Egypt
2005	5.	EM in Varna	Bantam	after defeat against Viktor Korabljew , Russia, a victory over Ville Kaeki , Finland a . a loss to Iwo Angelow
2005	1.	Mediterranean Games in Almería	Bantam	before Mohamed Moustafa Abu Elela, Egypt a. Vicente Lillo Garcia, Spain
2005	17th	World Cup in Belgrade	Bantam	with victory over Jonsel Ramirez, Dom. Rep. U. Lost to Roman Amojan , Armenia
2006	2.	Golden Grand Prix in Szombathely	Bantam	behind Wenelin Wenkow , Bulgaria, in front of Bayram Özdemir
2006	14th	EM in Moscow	Bantam	after losing to Claudiu Florin Gavrila, Romania
2006	7th	Universities World Cup in Ulaanbaatar	Bantam	Winner: Hyuk Wom, South Korea
2006	14th	World Cup in Guangzhou / China	Bantam	with victory over Ibrahim El Said Karim, Egypt a. Lost to Ri Kyong Il, North Korea
2007	9.	"Nikola Petrov" Memorial in Sofia	Bantam	Winner: Wenelin Wenkow ahead of Maxim Mordowin, Russia a. Hamid Soryan Reihanpour , Iran
2007	3.	EM in Sofia	Bantam	with victories over Aurelian Leciu, Romania a. Tibor Olah, Hungary, a loss to Rowshan Bajramow , Azerbaijan u. a win over Ville Kaeki, Finland
2007	3.	World Cup in Baku	Bantam	with victories over Kim Won Mo, North Korea, Florian Crusius , Germany a. Yerbol Konyratow, Kazakhstan, a loss to Hamid Soryan Reihanpour u. a win over Lindsey Durlacher , USA
2008	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Szombathely	Bantam	behind Kohei Hasegawa, Japan a. Mariusz Łoś , Poland, together with Thomas Spencer Mango , USA, ahead of Anders Rönningen, Norway and Wendelin Wenkow
2008	7th	OS in Beijing	Bantam	with victory over Juri Kowal , Ukraine, defeat against Nasir Mankijew , Russia, victory over Ildar Hafizow, Uzbekistan u. Lost to Hamid Soryan Reihanpour
2009	19th	EM in Vilnius	Bantam	after losing to Bekchan Mankiev , Russia
2009	1.	Mediterranean Games in Pescara	Bantam	before Mustafa Mohammed, Egypt a . Grigoris Anastasiadis, Greece
2009	27.	Wrestling World Championships 2009 in Herning	Bantam	after losing to Virgil Munteanu, Romania

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Kristijan Fris at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Kristijan Fris in the fight against the Finn Ville Kaeki for the bronze medal at the European Championship 2007 (on YouTube )